For generations wizards have sought ways to augment their already substantial magical abilities. Centuries of research has yielded countless new spells, metamagic practices, and even the discovery of cooperative spellcasting as a means for making existing spells more powerful. Now you can add even more power to your arsenal with Creature Components!

Harvest the essence of elementals, the scales of dragons, and the blood of genies for use in augmenting your own spells or take it a step further with mods to magic items, weapons, and armor.

Creature Components is a 58-page rule supplement surrounding the harvesting of specialized components, and their use in the augmentation of both arcane and divine magic. This book includes:

- Rules for identifying and harvesting creature components

- Over 100 creatures in the component catalogue

- Variant Magical Items

- New Magical Weapons and more

Within these pages are options for both players and DMs to add variety to treasure hoards, day to day spell casting, and even item creation. Magic has evolved...

"There is narrative potential for years in the system presented here and I absolutely love it to bits. This book is stellar and deserves a final verdict of 5 stars + seal of approval, is a candidate for my top ten of 2016 and receives the EZG Essentials-tag". - Endzeitgeist's review of Creature Components Vol 1 for Pathfinder which was #5 on the Top 10 of 2016 list!

While art in this book is tame the content is part of Playground Adventure's 12 and up line and is not recommended for sensitive small children due to the graphic nature of harvesting creature components. Use of this product at gaming tables involving small children is solely at parental discretion.

Is this the most up to date version or the other one I see two entries. Creature Components Vol 1 and Creature components Vol 1 5e. Is this one for 5e only and the other is more broad use?

BJ HApril 12, 2018 4:26 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Creature Components Volume 1 is for Pathfinder, this one is for 5E. Hope that helps!

Chad HJune 21, 2017 9:06 pm UTC

PURCHASER

$15 for 58 pages seems steep.

Thomas MJuly 16, 2017 8:28 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Yeah, now its $20 for 58 pages...

Chad HJuly 18, 2017 10:27 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Yikes...the content sounds really interesting, but at $20 for 58 pages I'd want a softbound book at least. I've bought a number (a ridiculous number if I'm being honest) of 200+ page core rulebooks on this site for that price.

BJ HJuly 20, 2017 6:33 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

That ... is some weird error.

BJ HJuly 20, 2017 6:39 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Fixed! Also, it should be on sale during DTRPG's Christmas in July event.

Interesting take. The ideas are well thought out and fairly well implemented. The art is decent, but sparingly used. The magic system referred to in the material is more implied than spelled out. I will take a star off for that as the crafting system [...]

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